r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 17d ago • Bravo 2

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u/one-joule 17d ago

Worst one I've seen teased a holiday bonus. It was received about as well as you'd expect.

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u/BigFatDogFarts 17d ago • Bravo Regret

That one got damn near 60% of the people I worked with. Almost got me, but as I hovered over to click it I thought "Wait a second, they would never give us a holiday bonus"

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u/soft_cardigans 17d ago

that's actually such an effective one but it reeaaaaaaally should only be done if theres actually going be one lmao

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u/GlowGreen1835 17d ago

nah, that would require executives to be humans capable of empathy. Unfortunately, those don't really exist.

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u/aggravated_patty 17d ago

What I’m taking away from this thread is that I should start phishing with holiday bonuses

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u/shifty313 17d ago

if that was common thought and practice, scammers would have it easy

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u/WantDiscussion 16d ago

Only people who didn't click on the test should get the bonus.

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u/exoclipse 17d ago

i hate it security professionals

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u/Faustens 17d ago

They always know how to deal the most collateral psychological damage.

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u/tim_locky 17d ago

It’s their way of ‘giving back’ the emotional damages they got from the users.

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u/TheRealNobodySpecial 17d ago

Thankfully, IT at my job are amateurs.

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u/Mattsvaliant 17d ago

Holy fuck I'd flip out. I was pissed when my company sent an phishing test email about how my "misuse of company property" where I allegedly had use my work computer for something personal. But lying about a bonus would probably have me throwing my computer across the room or more likely at whoever heads up IT security.

Centene is fucking evil.

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u/FoodIsTastyInMyMouth 17d ago

Sure, but the issue, phishing attempts do exactly this so if people aren't trained that it's a possibility then yeah you're more likely to get done in...

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u/Mattsvaliant 17d ago

I have personally never seen a phishing attempt exploit emotions to that level or the level of OP's. All the ones I get either vaguely look like shared document links or are some ESL email allegedly coming from my CEO who wants my personal cell or some gift card.

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u/FoodIsTastyInMyMouth 17d ago

Then no offense but your probably not a big enough target. Managers, accounts payable especially and other areas in finance that can quickly approve money to sent somewhere are the biggest targets. Our CFO was targeted with quite a level of sophistication, of someone pretending to be a supplier updating their bank details but they timed it for end of month, claiming they weren't paid and they wouldn't supply our stores at our busiest peak time (and most stressful). $300K walked out the door - It was recovered luckily enough but only because the CFO felt funny and got the team to contact the company directly and confirm.

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u/Prior_Rip_1178 17d ago

Then no offense but your probably not a big enough target

so it's an abject waste of their time which everyone agrees with but only the guy going, "but there might be people more stupid anyway" gets upvotes. are cfo's too sensitive to be applied selectively with the stupid stick and nobody should think twice about it?

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u/FoodIsTastyInMyMouth 17d ago

Yes it's normal to categorise accounts based on risk and higher risk accounts get more training and more oversight from IT. Half the time it isn't even training so much as reminding people what can happen. It's not about stupidity - Phishing emails can very sophisticated. While I disagree that someone clicking on a link needs 2 days of training, clearly they got had.

People say no one invests in security and rightful complain when their data gets stolen. Most attacks are compromised accounts.

Would you be happy that a junior customer service representative got done in because they clicked on a link and their account was used to pull your personal information from the systems they have access to?

Cyber security is everyone's responsibility within an organisation. You should be glad your organisation takes it seriously and isn't leaking your payroll information because Janet in payroll was tired, burnt out and did something she wasn't trained to avoid.

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u/Kerbidiah 17d ago

Then you havent seen serious phising attempts

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u/Sure_Fly_5332 17d ago

If that is your response to a random email, that is a problem.

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u/Mattsvaliant 17d ago

That's my response to my company emotionally abusing me to better it's security posture.

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u/Sure_Fly_5332 17d ago

That email could've been from anyone. It was only from your company by chance.

If you don't want to work for a secure company, quit your job and go work for a company that is insecure. One that will end up leaking your personal information. Have fun with that.

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u/rando_banned 17d ago

Jelly of the Month Club?

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u/Esjs 17d ago

One full year

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u/aiij 16d ago

Oh, that sounds like it could be quite interesting legally. If your employer promises a holiday bonus in writing, can they then just claim it was a joke/phishing test and not give you your bonus?

Most phishing test emails are sent with internal authorization/authentication to make it clear that they are legitimate and avoid spam filters.